Thirty African countries have laws against homosexuality, but debate still rages over whether homophobia is endemic to Africa or a European import. “Leftover colonial laws” against queerness are only partially responsible, said Wunpini Fatimata Mohammed, a professor of journalism and mass communications at the University of Georgia and author of the article, “Deconstructing homosexuality in Ghana.” In societies that were already homophobic before colonization, said Dr Mohammed, “these colonial laws worked in tandem with homophobic societal norms.” American evangelicals also contribute to anti-queerness in Africa.
A new book highlights what contemporary prohibitions on Black life look like in various geographical and socio-political spaces.
In the Age of Trump, it could be said that all interpreters of Jefferson and US History have their own “alternative facts.”
White supremacist killers in the U.S. are simply implementing on a local level what their government does across the globe.
Ancient Egyptians were not Asians, nor aliens. “Genocide might indeed be a worse demon of our nature.”
The US government gave hundreds of millions of acres of land to whites, but failed to give freed slaves 40 acres and a mule or protect Black farmers from massive theft.
